Sarah wore his pin: Buchanan was alarmed that USA would no longer be white christian dominated

[Liberal_in_LA]

Palin fired disloyal officials, backed Buchanan & Forbes in 2000
BY JAMES GORDON MEEK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU

Wednesday, September 3rd 2008, 2:04 AM

Her first pick for President in 2000 was ultraconservative ex-Nixon aide Pat Buchanan. She wore his "America First" campaign button at a small Wasilla rally, The Associated Press reported in July 1999.

By August, however, Palin had switched her loyalties and volunteered to help run the state campaign of Republican billionaire Steve Forbes, according to the Daily Sitka Sentinel.

Palin's flirtation with Buchanan's brand of politics should concern voters weighing her as McCain's vice president, said one political expert.

"It was hypernationalistic - a very narrow definition of who fit in," said New America Foundation scholar Steve Clemons. Besides railing against gays, immigrants and free trade, Buchanan sounded alarms that America's days as a nation dominated by white Christians were numbered.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/republican_race/2008/09/02/2008-09-02_palin_fired_disloyal_officials_backed_bu.html

[LeftishBrit]

1. k&r, all very scary

[Hissyspit]

2. She's a bigoted, insensitive, ignorant wingnut.

Love how the mainstream media is treatiing her as reasonable and treating protesters as loonies.

[FatDave]

3. You say that like there's some other kind. (nt)

[Hissyspit]

4. LOL You made me realize I left a comma out...

of my redundancy. :)